’Mid the green fields of Virginia in the vale of Shenandoah There’s an ivy covered homestead that I love With it’s quaint old fashioned chimney and it’s simple homelike air ’Tis the home of my dear parents, now above 
Chorus There’s a peaceful cottage there, a happy home so dear My heart is longing for them day by day Where I spent life’s golden hours in the vale of Shenandoah ’Mid the green fields for Virginia far away 
Though I’m living in a mansion grand with wealth at my command I’d give it all, just for a single day To play with my yound comrades, and see my mother dear ’Mid the green fields for Virginia far away 
’Mid the green fields of Virginia, stands an old mill by the stream And I’d come to that old spot to sing and play Oh how often would I throw the stones into that babbling brook And I dreamed some day ’twould carry me away 
Yes the dream came true, one day in June, I left the dear old home They told me mother’s heart had broke that day Oh if I could but see her, I’d lay me down and die ’Mid the green fields for Virginia far away 
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